[From Wednesday’s Daily.]
James Spaven, of Albia, grand deputy organizer
of the Foresters of America, was in the city yesterday en-route home from Buffalo
where he a-ttended [sic] the Supreme Foresters’ convention. Mr. Spaven attended
the Pan-American exposition and was in attendance last Friday when President
McKinley was shot. In company with a number of the supreme officers of the Companions
Mr. Spaven was near the scene of where the accident occurred. When the first
shot was fired Mrs. Story, of Buffalo, who was in the crowd, threw up her hands
and screamed and Mr. Spaven presumed that she was shot, and stepped to her assistance.
The second shot was fired by Czolgosz with his left hand, and his right arm
was under Mrs. Story’s elbow. After the shooting the assassin was removed and
for a time it was not known who was shot. Mr. Spaven kicked at the assassin
and has blood on his clothes, from the effects of a blow which Czolgosz received
from a colored man who was standing near the scene.